The punch line was something that was said to me by the father of my first girlfriend.
My mother never forgot the line, and reminded me of it years later. Mom probably had some choice things to say about this girl’s father (who she never met) - though, she never shared it.

This strip is also notable, because it is the first appearance of Oslo’s father. He is in no way modeled on my own… my own Dad has always been a good hearted and funny guy.

Regular visitors of Muddlecreek may notice the absence of the COTM bar which has graced the real estate above the Muddlecreek banner. It would seem that Comic of The Month collective is no more. We former members of the collective are forming a new webcomics community that is, as of yet, unnamed. Stay tuned.

Just want to take a minute to thank Jeb Shookman (also of Cobra Dog fame) for inviting me into the COTM community, and for standing at the helm of it despite his increasingly busy schedule. Kudos! Chocolate covered pretzel snacks for EVERYONE! (unless you’re diabetic… I can’t really help you there…)

Please stop by my other site for the “side project” I have going on with Lane Zumoff at Fragment5.com. It updates today! I thank you for it…

Added some new links to some interesting comics on the links page… check em’ out!

One of the readers of the last strip had mentioned Helen Keller in a comment. I did a little research (as I always do on historical stuff), and discovered a fanatic religious website that claimed Helen Keller was a satanist. It had a text link on the side that said “this is not a hate site”, in addition to saying the Popes are all anti-christs. It all adds up to good time party fun, where everybody must get stoned… with large rocks.

Just got some new used books from alibris.. Color Index and Color Index 2 by Jim Krause. Really neat books with gobs of interesting color combinations… I look forward to trying them out in Muddlecreek. See you Monday!

Keong from the late lamented T-N-T strip had a little color twisting fun with
the “Mysterious Stranger” strip… making it “Mysterious Even Stranger”. Ha!
Here’s a couple of samples - psychedelic results ensue. Thanks to Keong C. for this.

Howdy! I owe an apology to those who visited the site on Monday night during the middle of a minor revamp. Visitors found banners of varying quality and size, and probably some baffling wonders of website navigation. Thanks to the creators of Eben07 and Calamities of Nature for the input on the banner size & quality. For the revamp I took some advice from the creator of Plenty Deep & Soulless Me… also thanks for his input. In addition, I was trying to place a couple of graphics in place of the standard comicpress arrows, but found myself stumped by the modern marvel of PHP code. It’s like an old man with a DVD remote. (*Speaking in old man voice* Damned speaking box with pictures! This never would have happened if they hadn’t've taken prayer out of schools! Is Matlock on yet?)

-jb